Emmy Obermeyer, Tea Island, Lake George
1893, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 15.6 × 20.9 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
page size: 27 × 34.8 cm (10 5/8 × 13 11/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.80
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Stieglitz Estate Number
349B
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
97
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 97.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: Emmy Obermeyer / Tea Island, 1893 / (Lake George)
Wikidata ID
Q64037708
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Nine years younger than Stieglitz, Emmeline “Emmy” Obermeyer, sister of his friend and Berlin colleague Joseph Obermeyer, was the daughter of a successful Brooklyn brewer. She and Stieglitz were married in 1893 and she gave birth to their only child, Katherine (Kitty), in 1898. They divorced in 1924.
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 132 [lantern slide]